Metaphor as a manifestation of prescriptivism: the case of France and Quebec

Walsh, Olivia; Humphries, Emma

Abstract

This chapter considers prescriptivism in the French language from a comparative perspective, focusing on a particular type of metalinguistic text, namely texts providing “language advice”. It provides a discussion of prescriptivism in general, outlines the development of prescriptivism in two French-speaking areas, France and Quebec, and gives an overview of the types of “language advice” texts produced in both places since the seventeenth century. A case study then analyses the language areas most commonly discussed/critiqued in a corpus of metalinguistic texts from France and Quebec ranging from the nineteenth to the twenty-first century, and also examines one means by which prescriptivism can be enacted in such texts, namely the use of metaphor or imagery, specifically those concerning health/sickness.

Citation

Walsh, O., & Humphries, E. (2023). Metaphor as a manifestation of prescriptivism: the case of France and Quebec. In The Routledge Handbook of Linguistic Prescriptivism (427-446). Routledge

• Online Publication Date: May 5, 2023
• Publication Date: May 5, 2023
• Deposit Date: Jul 12, 2023
• Publisher: Routledge
• Pages: 427-446
• Book Title: The Routledge Handbook of Linguistic Prescriptivism
• Chapter Number: 25
• ISBN: 9780367557843
• Keywords: Prescriptivism, standardisation, language advice, metaphor
• Public URL: https://nottingham-repository.worktribe.com/output/22995940
• Publisher URL: https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edit/10.4324/9781003095125-28/metaphor-manifestation-prescriptivism-olivia-walsh-emma-humphries
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